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Defence of the ‘portrait-study’ (10)

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So she commends your work of art, and your selective method, but cannot recognize the likeness. She does not come up to the description, nor near it, for indeed no woman could. Accordingly she sends you back your laudation, and pays homage to the originals from which you drew it. Confine your praises within the limits of humanity; if the shoe is too big, it may

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chance to trip her up. Then there was another point which I was to impress upon you.

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